Assets Quote by Alan Greenspan

What we need to understand is, one, that there are market failures; and two, that there are things like asset bubbles and irrational exuberance.…

— Nouriel Roubini

Fear causes individuals to restrain their spending and firms to withhold investments; as a result, the economy weakens, confirming their fear and leading them…

— Robert J. Shiller

Concentrating wealth in the hands of the few and deregulating financial institutions and practices lead to speculative bubbles that eventually burst - and that…

— Jennifer Granholm

Until you separate the speculative behaviour of the financial sector from the real economy and the financing of the real economy, then we are…

— Sharan Burrow

Any onset of increased investor caution elevates risk premiums and, as a consequence, lowers asset values and promotes the liquidation of the debt that…

— Alan Greenspan

We as central bankers need not be concerned if a collapsing financial asset bubble does not threaten to impair the real economy, its production,…

— Alan Greenspan

When all feels calm and prices surge, the markets may feel safe; but, in fact, they are dangerous because few investors are focusing on…

— Seth Klarman

Our microeconomic indicators are stable and it gives me reason to believe that we will calmly and steadily pass this uneasy period in our…

— Vladimir Putin

The actions taken by central banks and other authorities to stabilize a panic in the short run can work against stability in the long…

— Ben Bernanke

Well, as you know, we're working through a difficult period in our financial markets right now as we work off some of the past…

— Henry Paulson

An investor who proposes to ignore near-term market fluctuations needs greater resources for safety and must not operate on so large a scale, if…

— John Maynard Keynes

The essence of the this-time-is-different syndrome is...rooted in the firmly held belief that financial crises are things that happen to other people in other…

— Carmen Reinhart